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Organisational learning: an investigation of response to rapid change in a traditional environment. (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buckner, K., & Davenport, E. (2003). Organisational learning: an investigation of response to rapid change in a traditional environment.

This paper is a case study of 'collective' HCI in a 'top-down' systems project - a very large computing center in a new university in the United Kingdom. The authors present the findings of a small empirical study of computer supported teaching and l... Read More about Organisational learning: an investigation of response to rapid change in a traditional environment..

Capital in communities: the case of the Cipher Challenge (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, H. (2003). Capital in communities: the case of the Cipher Challenge. In Virtual communities 2003

Much of the literature on communities of practice is concerned with enhancing collaborative work at the level of a single organisation (for example, Huberman & Hogg, 1994) or networks of organisations (for example, Huang, Newell, & Galliers, 2002). I... Read More about Capital in communities: the case of the Cipher Challenge.

Where am I? Place as the basis for Presence. (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2003). Where am I? Place as the basis for Presence. In P. Turner, & E. Davenport (Eds.), Workshop on Space, Spatiality and Technologies

The phenomenology of familiarity. (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Van de Walle, G., Turner, P., & Davenport, E. (2003). The phenomenology of familiarity. In INTERACT 2003 - Bringing the Bits togETHer

Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre. (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buckner, K., & Davenport, E. (2002, September). Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre. Presented at ECCE 11

What happens to human computer interaction when the walls of a physical teaching laboratory are removed? We present the case of a very large (and new) computing centre (VLCC) in a technical university in Central Scotland. In this large multi-user... Read More about Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre..

Exploring knowledge sharing in distributed organisations: report on research in progress (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, H. (2002). Exploring knowledge sharing in distributed organisations: report on research in progress. In KMSS 2002: the new scope of knowledge management in theory and in practice

Published academic research and reported practice in the professional press indicate that social capital is a driver of knowledge management. This paper reports on progress to date on part of a project that examines the role of social capital in know... Read More about Exploring knowledge sharing in distributed organisations: report on research in progress.

New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Hall, H. (2001, January). New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework. Presented at Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

The role of communities of practice in knowledge creation is recognized in a number of contexts. The authors take a socio-technical perspective and identify four characteristics of such communities: situated learning, situated action, distributed cog... Read More about New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework.

Consolidating knowledge for aggregated enterprise in tourism SMEs. (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Taylor, K. (2001). Consolidating knowledge for aggregated enterprise in tourism SMEs. In D. G. Campbell (Ed.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (217-226)

Social exchange for knowledge exchange (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, H. (2001). Social exchange for knowledge exchange. In Managing knowledge: conversations and critiques, University of Leicester Management Centre, 10-11 April 2001 (1-23)

The factors that motivate people to codify and share knowledge for the benefit of others have been identified as a priority area for individual companies (Smith & Farquhar, 2000, p. 27). They represent the most commonly discussed topic amongst prac... Read More about Social exchange for knowledge exchange.

Localisation, globalisation, and SMEs in European tourism: the ‘virtual enterprise model of intervention’. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (2000). Localisation, globalisation, and SMEs in European tourism: the ‘virtual enterprise model of intervention’. In Proceedings of ASIS 2000, Technical Papers Volume (309-319)

Discussion of the effect of globalization on SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in Europe focuses on a case study of a current European Commission (EC) project, Net Quality, which is based on the virtual enterprise as an intervention model that may... Read More about Localisation, globalisation, and SMEs in European tourism: the ‘virtual enterprise model of intervention’..

Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marsh, S., Davenport, E., Dibben, M., Friedman, B., March, S., Rosenbaum, H., & Thimbleby, H. (2000). Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions. In CHI 2000 Proceedings (239-240). https://doi.org/10.1145/633292.633432

How might trust be a component of human-computer based interaction? There are a number of dimensions involving different combinations of humans, systems and computer agents. Recent studies of trust in the workplace indicate that trust has many attrib... Read More about Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions.

Social welfare aspects of information with special reference to news. (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Duff, A. (2003, June). Social welfare aspects of information with special reference to news. Presented at IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society) International Conference on e-Society

The information society thesis, according to which economically advanced nations are undergoing transformation into post-industrial, information-based societies, can, with caveats, be taken as a premise. Essentially empirical or predictive, this infl... Read More about Social welfare aspects of information with special reference to news..